>>Exactly. She claims that any change from using an editbox for this will cause an unacceptable set of changes to something else. She doesn't want to hear about anything else.
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>Changing from an editbox to a textbox will cause cascading changes in other areas of the application or form? Sounds like an esternal coupling problem to me.

Me, and you, and Edward Pikman, and Ken Weber to name 4 of the many people who've said there's a problem; editbox isn't the right control,way to do this". Several people suggested Listbox and a textbox, as well as Grid-based solutions. She said "I can't change to something else. I have to use an editbox." Once she said she wanted to do it wrong, I gave up...I don't know a reasonable way to make an editbox behave like an array of textboxes which force you to have exactly 5 numeric characters per line and handling the string as if it were an array of char(5) that exploits an editbox.

I have enough exercises in futility to deal with! ;-)